Mabel Barker Huddleston. The Roof-garden. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Roof-garden

By Mabel Barker Huddleston


SINCE I lost my ancient wealth
These are they that have nourished my life
In this grotesque, grey desert of the town:
The leaping up of flame;
The widening of the sky at the corner of the street;	5
The soft renewals of steam at the funnel’s lip,
Rising, coiling, dissolving;
White flowers of the roofs
That in unfolding vanish.